Hitler: A Biography"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels's diaries, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust, and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively. |
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Contents
Fantasy and Failure | 1 |
Dropout | 18 |
Elation and Embitterment | 47 |
The Beerhall Agitator | 66 |
The Drummer | 105 |
Emergence of the Leader | 139 |
Mastery over the Movement | 160 |
Breakthrough | 196 |
Licensing Barbarism | 514 |
Zenith of Power | 550 |
Designing a War of Annihilation | 589 |
Showdown | 622 |
Fulfilling the Prophecy | 668 |
Last Big Throw of the Dice | 700 |
Beleaguered | 745 |
Hoping for Miracles | 779 |
Levered into Power | 236 |
The Making of the Dictator | 260 |
Securing Total Power | 301 |
Working Towards the Führer | 320 |
Ceaseless Radicalization | 358 |
The Drive for Expansion | 401 |
Marks of a Genocidal Mentality | 448 |
Going for Broke | 470 |
Luck of the Devil | 816 |
No Way Out | 843 |
Into the Abyss | 888 |
Extinction | 922 |
Epilogue | 956 |
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